Expressions in Art

Education of African American Young People 

This photo is strongly emotional. It is centered on young African Americans receiving an equal education. The Delaney  sisters valued getting an education more than anything else in life, besides maybe family. One of the said that education is the only way that they can better themselves (speaking for African Americans at the time). The Delaney sisters did just that. They went to school all the way through college despite what people might say about them, or do to them during it. This picture says the same thing. Ruby Bridges went to school in a white school in order to get the same education that every other white child was getting because it was a way to better herself. She went to that school despite the fact that adults lined the streets yelling at her, holding signs, and throwing things at her. She looked past all that and realized that this would better her and her race overall and that she had to do it. What they believed in is true, the only way that you can change things is by first receiving the education to do just that.